What does the March 5 DACA deadline mean for Dreamers?
Two separate federal courts have blocked the president from ending DACA and lawmakers last week failed to pass a permanent solution.
Author: Josh Sidorowicz
Published: 11:22 PM EST February 18, 2018
In two weeks, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) expires. But what the March 5 deadline actually means for Dreamers is murky at best.
The Obama-era program was created in 2012 to protect children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents from deportation.
President Trump's administration announced in September it would be winding down the program, giving Congress six months—until March 5—to come up with a solution for the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants covered by the program. There are more than 27,000 DACA recipients living in Florida, according to data from the Migration Policy Institute.
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